Which means, I guess, that using analog cable, that I'll likely run into problems. It's unclear to me, in re-reading the post about Known issues, why installing a Cable Card would solve the problems if one has analog cable only!

I was glad to see, though, that HD will handle over the air.

It sounds as if HD and XL really are only workable with digital input.

Which means, I guess, that using analog cable, that I'll likely run into problems. It's unclear to me, in re-reading the post about Known issues, why installing a Cable Card would solve the problems if one has analog cable only!

Most (but not all) providers now have digital versions of every channel 0-100. Without a CableCard, you get the analog versions. With a CableCard, you get the digital versions.

The TivoHD was introduced in mid-2007. It is built around a Broadcom CPU that supports HDMI 1.1.

Broadcom's newest CPUs support HDMI 1.3, so that's something you would probably see in a future TiVo. Note that most of HDMI 1.3's benefits are specific to Blu-ray players and gaming consoles; the only benefits of 1.3 to a DVR would relate to lipsync correction and Dolby Digital Plus support for Internet VOD.

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Originally Posted by Doctorhifi

Can someone confirm this is true for the latest HD XL (TCD658000). I have need to simultaneously send HDMI and component signals.

Yes, it is.

That said, with certain displays, the component output may go dark if HDMI is plugged into a device that is turned off. This does not affect most devices, but apparently it is an issue with some Samsung TVs.

The TivoHD was introduced in mid-2007. It is built around a Broadcom CPU that supports HDMI 1.1.

Broadcom's newest CPUs support HDMI 1.3, so that's something you would probably see in a future TiVo. Note that most of HDMI 1.3's benefits are specific to Blu-ray players and gaming consoles; the only benefits of 1.3 to a DVR would relate to lipsync correction and Dolby Digital Plus support for Internet VOD.

Yes, it is.

That said, with certain displays, the component output may go dark if HDMI is plugged into a device that is turned off. This does not affect most devices, but apparently it is an issue with some Samsung TVs.

Just wanted to confirm that my findings jive with what was said above: all outputs do work at the same time and I did not see the component outputs go dark when using HDMI (althought I am using a 46" Panasonic plasma G15).

That said, with certain displays, the component output may go dark if HDMI is plugged into a device that is turned off. This does not affect most devices, but apparently it is an issue with some Samsung TVs.

It's a bit tricky. First, you have to be in a recorded program and pause it; then you have to hit the down arrow to get the screen cleared, then do your programming. Every time I have to reboot or lose electricity I have to do this and it rarely works the first time.

I'm setting up my aunt's Tivo HD this weekend. Or I'm planning to do it, but I want to be sure I'm not wasting my time. With cable, I have always set up the Tivo and run it a few days prior to Cable Card install. Is this the correct way to do it with FiOS? Or should it all be done at the same time?

Well I just closed my issue with Yamaha on an RX-V465. The sound is so high pitch my wife and I can't hear most of it until the very end of the noise. Wish I could return the receiver. Oh well...Lesson learned...I should of checked the forum .

Chuck,

I think we can finally close this issue. Check out item 14 from the Tivo Forum,

The popular Yamaha RX-V565 and RX-V665 A/V receivers do not respond well to the way the TiVo switches between DD2.0 and DD5.1 channels. These Yamaha receivers may produce brief, but highly annoying "coughing metallic sounds" when changing channels.

Some older versions of the HTR-5830 are also affected; newer versions of the HTR-5830 do not appear to be affected.

Even though I have the RX-V465, this is the problem I am experiencing. While not Yamaha’s fault, I hope the two companies can work together to prevent this type of thing in the future. Unfortunately I am now stuck with a receiver that I can’t use but is brand new. The reseller will not give me a refund because they say it’s not Yamaha’s fault. So I will try and resell it on Ebay at a loss.

Well I just closed my issue with Yamaha on an RX-V465. The sound is so high pitch my wife and I can't hear most of it until the very end of the noise. Wish I could return the receiver. Oh well...Lesson learned...I should of checked the forum .

Assuming you have broadband, TiVo uses the Network Time Protocol to maintain damn good time over the intarwebs. Theoretically the protocol is capable of maintaing time to within a few milliseconds of NIST or USNO time, but the way TiVo implements it is by using a burst of requests every few hours instead of more frequent requests. Still should be good for well under 1 second of inaccuracy. To make sure I get the very best time, I intercept TiVo's requests in my firewall and point them to my own NTP server, but that's just something silly that a nerd would do.

I just got a Denon AVR-790, which is the same as a 1910, and I'm seeing this issue. I lose sound for 1-2 seconds after trickplay.

In addition, I lose audio for 1-2 seconds whenever the audio type changes. I have my Tivo HD setup to send Dolby Digital to my receiver via HDMI. When I go from the 5.1 Dolby signal of the show to the 2.0 Dolby in an ad, I lose sound for a second or two. When the show returns and it goes from 2.0->5.1, same issue happens.

High-definition recordings are stored on the TiVo's hard drive as transport streams in a proprietary format. When you download a recording from the TiVo with a web browser (or TiVo Desktop), the TiVo remuxes the recorded streams stored on the hard drive into a single MPG file that can be played on a PC or Mac. This on-the-fly remuxing does not have any effect on quality, but it does cut throughput by 50-70% compared to MRV between two TiVos.

When transferring recordings between two TivoHD DVRs, throughput is about twice as fast (20-24Mbps typical), because recorded files are transferred just as they are stored on the hard drive.

Hi,

Excellent post and thread! Thanks ...

I'm curious about which CPU, the TiVo's or the computer's, does the remuxing during a TiVo Desktop transfer of a recording from a TiVo HD or Series3 to a Mac running OS X 10.5.8. My understanding is that the remuxing is needed to convert the MPEG-2 transport stream on the TiVo to an MPEG-2 program stream for storage on the computer. Am I correct?

When transferring a previously moved recording from a computer back to a TiVo, is there similar overhead for converting the program stream on the computer back to a transport stream for the TiVo. If so, which CPU does the work?

Do the answers to any of those questions change if one is using pyTivoX and/or StreamBaby, in any of their various modes, to send/stream things back to the TiVo? What about if one uses something like kmttg instead of TiVo Desktop or a browser to transfer the recording from the TiVo to the computer?

Thanks in advance for any information you or anyone else can give me ...

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